“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.